what was your first knife?

[Edwood7]

My very first knife was and old buck knife hunters knife, mi granddad gave it tu me for mi 9 birth day; mi mother went nuts and confiscated, I got it back till I was 12 when mi granddad past away, I almost had forgotten about it. When mi mother took it out of the closet and gave it to me, it was like having a piece of mi grandfather back. I still have that knife, it was whit me when I graduated basic training, and jump school. It now is framed next to a picture of me and mi grandfather.

 

[Pilot1]

My Dad gave me his knife from the U.S. Army. It was the ubiquitous utility folder marked U.S. on the handle with a few blades/tools. I wish I still had it. I used that knife a lot growing up.

 

[yablanowitz]

I found this little Tuxedo penknife in a park when I was six or seven years old. It had come apart at one end (probably from someone prying with it) so it was my first knife repair as well.

 

[22-rimfire]

Beginning at about the 2nd grade, I had a small Imperial slip joint. These knives ran about $1 years ago which was expensive for me at that time. My first better knife was a Case Barlow which I used for years for everything until I lost it rabbit hunting.

 

[Dusty One]

This may be the first or close to it...Mid to Late 50's

 

[JohnnyR]

It was an inexpensive scout/utility type pocket knife with black composite scales. My dad gave it to me when I became a cub scout back in '62 or '63. It didn't have the navy scales and the scout logo, just a knock-off. But, I've had a thing for black scales and carbon blades ever since. The pocketknife in the photo belonged to my wife's grandpa, I rescued it from a drawer on his farm after he passed. It's a Belknap Hdwr/John Primble with bone scales. It's a much better knife than the one I had, but a similar pattern.